- Holy places TV take you to Capernaum to visit the White Synagogue. The name of the city was originally Kfar Nahum [ney-huh m], which means "The village of ahum". (Named after somebody called Nahum) The name of the village was translated as Capernaum by the Greeks, and the word is used in the Gospels and by Joseph Flavius in his writings. Thus, we keep saying Capernaum in the modern language.
- Holy places TV takes you to Capernaum [kuh-pur- ney-uh] to visit the White Synagogue.The name of the city was originally Kfar Nahum [ney-huh m] , which means "The village of Nahum". (Named after somebody called Nahum) The name of the village was translated as Capernaum by the Greeks, and the word is used in the Gospels and by Joseph Flavius in his writings. Thus, we keep saying Capernaum in the modern language. The history and the major events occurring in the city were written in the Scriptures. Its advantageous location, along the banks of a lake filled with fish, its vicinity with the Tabgha' springs, and its proximity with the artery of Via Maris, allowed the inhabitants to devote themselves as much to fishing as to agriculture and to benefit from commercial traffic that was unbound between Galilee and Damascus. Jesus was mainly active in the village of Capernaum, he chose this place to be the center of his public ministry in Galilee. According to the Gospels, it is a well-known fact that there were some apostles living in that village. It is said that one of the houses belonged to Pierre and Jesus could have stayed there. Apparently, we can find a synagogue in the village were Jesus was praying every Saturday. However, after that period, in the seventh century emphasizing the beginning of the Arab period, the village whose most inhabitants were Christians, perished. The village was abandoned two hundred years later. Buildings collapsed, houses destroyed, stones slowly recovered everything in the area.
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